Recent content by clunker

Thanks for the responses everyone. I just looked at the price of Rhodium as a commodity, and it is somewhere around $2,750 per ounce ($97/g). Maybe not as valuable as Ru-106, but still prohibitively expensive for a lot of applications. My latest project (only in the planning stages) requires...

My first question on this forum, and I'm diving in head first. While working on a project that has very little to do with physics, I stumbled upon a list of products that result from a Uranium-235 fission reaction. To my surprise, there is a lot of good stuff in that nuclear waste. Specifically...

Hey everyone, I just joined the forum. Thankfully, I have not had any homework in years, but sometimes my brain still needs stimulation. I usually have several mind experiments going on at once, and I am hoping that this forum will be a great resource for answering some difficult questions...